A framework to round trip NUnit to / from Microsoft Excel customer tests. Please see Introducing CustomerTestsExcel for more details.

Created as a replacment for Fitnesse. RES is primarily a science and engineering company, and due to the calculation heavy nature of the work, none of the existing customer test frameworks are a good fit.

Advantages

• Tests are expressed in Microsoft Excel Spreadsheets, which our customers are familiar with, and which support any complexity of calculation
• Tests are converted to C# / NUnit, and make use of existing tooling (which aids debugging, coverage, Continuous Integration etc)
• Automated refactoring can be done in C#, using existing tooling, and then the changes written back to Excel
• The NUnit tests are generated from Excel, so the two are guaranteed to be in sync
• Most scaffolding code can be generated, you usually only need to supply the code to call your system under test

The easiest way to get started is to follow the step by step guide.

However you can do it manually

• Create a new .net Core project (.csproj) for the Customer Tests
• Install the Nuget Package CustomerTestsExcel
• Create an ExcelTests subfolder
• Create an Excel Spreadsheet in the ExcelTests subfolder (like the ones in SampleTests/ExcelTests/).
• To generate the C# tests run GenerateCodeFromExcelTest.exe (as is done in SampleTests/ExcelTests/GenerateTests.bat)
• Enhance the generated code with any custom code required, and run the tests
• To recreate the Excel Spreadsheets from the C# code (should you want to)
  • Set a CUSTOMER_TESTS_EXCEL_WRITE_TO_EXCEL environment variable to true
  • Set a CUSTOMER_TESTS_RELATIVE_PATH_TO_EXCELTESTS environment variable from the Output Folder to the ExcelTests folder (usually ..\..\..\..\SampleTests\ExcelTests)
  • Run the tests

The Excel test for the classic Rerouting example (SampleTests/ExcelTests/Rerouting.xlsx) looks like this:

The scaffolding project has sample tests that showcase all of the functionality supported by the framework, and it contains instructions and examples for augmenting the generated code with custom code.

doc/excel-syntax.md shows the Excel syntax used for describing tests.

• CustomerTestsExcel.sln

The SampleTests project performs both documentation and End to End testing

During the AppVeyor build, the SampleTests Excel spreadsheets are converted in to C# tests, these tests are then run to re-create the spreadsheets, and then the spreadsheets are converted back in to C# again. This ensures that all the conepts contained within the spreadsheets are round trippable.

Click "Deploy" on the relevant AppVeyor build if you have access to it.

Otherwise

• dotnet build.exe CustomerTestsExcel.sln
• push .nupkg to a feed